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New refugee coalition in Manchester!

NWASDG | 30.05.2006 14:35 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | Liverpool

A new organisation, the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group (NWASDG), has been formed.

It was initially set up by the anti-deportation campaigns: Defend Kalombo Campaign, Defend Eucharia & Timeyi Campaign, Defend Abdullah Gawaan & Family Campaign, United Community Association of Libyan Refugees and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!

All asylum seekers and refugees, other anti-deportation campaigns and individuals are hereby invited to take part in the activities organised (see below) to protest against the racist treatment of asylum seekers by this government. The next planning meeting of NWASDG to discuss other ideas and organise further actions on the streets of Manchester, is Tuesday 20 June, 7.30 pm, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street.


Saturday 17 June 2006, 12pm Market Street, Manchester city centre
Protest against Labour's vicious and racist immigration laws!
Under racist immigration laws asylum seekers are targeted and face the threat of detention or deportation at any time to war-torn countries like Sudan, Iraq, DRCongo, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Under section 9 of the 2004 Act introduced by Labour, benefits are taken away from families of ‘failed’ asylum seekers, leaving them and their children homeless and destitute. Many asylum seekers driven by desperation have gone underground, over 30 have taken their own lives, hundreds have been on hunger strikes at detention centres on and off since June 2005. They are beginning to organise the fightback and we must support them! Defend all asylum seekers!

The NWASDG will also be organising a picket of Dallas Court called asylum seekers organisations living in Newcastle.

Thursday 22 June 2006, 12pm, South Langworthy Rd, Salford Quays,
Picket of Dallas Court Reporting Centre.
Big Noise demo! Close down Dallas Court! Free all asylum detainees! Part of a National day of action outside Immigration Reporting Centres, called by Tyneside Community Action for Refugees.  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/341547.html



The North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group (NWASDG) is an anti-racist organisation. It is a coalition of asylum seekers and refugees defence campaigns and their supporters, which will campaign actively against any and all forms of racism and fascism.

NWASDG will actively defend and support any and all asylum seekers and refugees and their families, who are under the threat of detention, destitution or deportation from Britain, within the north west area of England. NWASDG will also assist and work with asylum seekers defence campaigns in other parts of Britain.

NWASDG will aim to set up and support as many (individual or collective) defence campaigns as possible, for asylum seekers and refugees, and will actively seek to encourage them to campaign together on a regular basis.

NWASDG will seek to promote positive images of asylum seekers and refugees and their families and communities, and challenge the image that is portrayed in the mainstream media.

NWASDG will also encourage and build links between these vulnerable communities and the indigenous British population.

NWASDG
- e-mail: fightback_05@yahoo.com

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